President Donald Trump is defending his decision to pause some tariffs to Canada and Mexico for another month -- a notable reversal after imposing historic levies on the key U.S. trading partners earlier this week, causing markets to tumble.
On Friday, Trump signed more executive orders at the White House before he convened a first-ever cryptocurrency summit with industry leaders.
Trump admin sued 3 times a day on average since inauguration
With more than 100 federal lawsuits filed since the inauguration, President Donald Trump and his administration have effectively been sued three times for every business day he has occupied the Oval Office.
Approximately 30 of the 100 lawsuits relate to Trump's immigration policies, while more than 20 of the cases directly challenge the actions of Musk's DOGE.
With Trump signing more than 75 executive orders since taking office, the unprecedented flood of litigation has yielded mixed results in blocking the president's unilateral efforts to reshape the federal government.
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Mar 06, 2025, 8:57 AM EST
Trump to sign executive orders, Hegseth meets with UK counterpart
President Donald Trump has no public events on his schedule, but according to the White House, he will sign executive orders at 2 p.m. ET. It's unclear what he will be signing, though he is expected to take the extraordinary step this week of directing his secretary of education to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education by executive order, ABC News reports.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaves the House chamber after U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is meeting with United Kingdom Defense Secretary John Healey and Secretary of State Marco Rubio is delivering remarks at a U.S. hostage and wrongful detainee flag raising ceremony at the State Department.
On Capitol Hill, House Republicans are teeing up a vote to censure Democrat Al Green after his disruptions during Trump's Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress.
Mar 05, 2025, 11:39 PM EST
'Hamilton' cancels Kennedy Center run citing 'recent purge' by Trump administration
The hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" canceled a planned 2026 run at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, citing the firing of the theater's board and chairman and subsequent takeover by President Donald Trump.
"Politics have never affected the presentation of thousands of shows and the display of extraordinary visual arts," "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller said in a statement.
WASHINGTON, DC - Reflected in the Potomac River, the exterior of the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts building is lit up in multiple colors in advance of the annual Kennedy Center Honors on December 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)
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"However, in recent weeks we have sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality be destroyed. The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events at or originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents."
The show previously ran at the Kennedy Center twice — first in 2018, during Trump's first administration, and again in 2022. The upcoming showing would've been the third such run at the Washington, D.C., theater, but Seller said that the erosion of the theater's independence caused the show to reassess its plans.
"We are not acting against [Trump's] administration, but against the partisan policies of the Kennedy Center as a result of his recent takeover," Seller said.
Mar 05, 2025, 11:07 PM EST
Trump expected to direct McMahon to eliminate the Department of Education: EO draft
President Trump is expected to take the extraordinary step this week of directing his secretary of education to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education, according to sources familiar with a draft executive order.
The draft Trump is expected to issue calls on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking all necessary steps "permitted by law." The draft doesn’t directly mention Congress but Trump’s proposal requires congressional approval. Any proposed legislation would likely fail without 60 Senate votes.
Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Education, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing, Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington.
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The move has been months in the making, helping the president inch one step closer to fulfilling a campaign promise.
“The Federal bureaucratic hold on education must end,” the president’s EO draft states. “The Department of Education's main functions can, and should, be returned to the States,” it continues.
In the draft, the secretary is directed to allocate federal funding for education programs subject to rigorous compliance with the law and administration policy.
But congressional approval is required to abolish a federal agency and Secretary McMahon has acknowledged she would need Congress to carry out the president’s vision to close the department she’s been tapped to lead.
